"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."
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- Bodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23
- Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024
- Climate Change Special Issue, 2022
- Laughter Special Issue, 2023
- Queer Special Issue, 2023-24
- Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
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- Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
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- Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
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- Volume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
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- Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
MILK, ANTHOLOGIES, HORSES, & JOUISSANCE contained work as a meta-performance of the idea of texts passing through other texts.
“Woken Word” was born as my inner voice was awakening and the world, ironically was becoming “woke” while simultaneously retreating into isolation.
"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."
This sestina poem reflects and validates my own personal experience as a 14-year-old who was dealing with something I couldn’t initially even name; anxiety.
Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
"This poem is rumination on how the personal experience of volunteering in never-before-seen flood relief efforts in the remote north reinforces the research that 'many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years.'"
“Cold Snap” is about two disparate adults, caught in the tumult of abrupt weather change, caused by the accidental detonation of an experimental meteorological weapon.
Sandra L. Faulkner·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Special Issues
··21 min readAs a feminist poet and (auto)ethnographer, I found Leavy's themes of Film Blue speak to what I want my work to do and be.
I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
"Have you ever crossed the desert in a circus train? I took such a detour—by choice— in 1978 when I hung up my pointe shoes to ride an elephant named Peggy."
Terry Graff·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingClimate Change Special Issue, 2022Special Issues
··15 min read"As the world’s bird populations decline precipitously, will the many winged creatures we knew as children live only in the mists of memory?"
